by mental and emotional means. The Anti-Semite teaches hate and inequality, which affects other races, also. Through racism and hate, they are able to hold the Jew and others behind. They are, also, able to turn them against one another. They are able to achieve this because we are fighting one another for the civil liberties and ontological freedom that the nation gives us. While we are fighting each other for the respect of the “white man’, we are not respecting ourselves. This is another way of keeping a people “un-free”. Over the course of time, every race has known some form of slavery. Every one of those groups overcame their enslavement because they found ways of learning. Once a man is enlightened, he realizes his right to live as everyone else does. Freedom is first realized mentally, and then achieved physically. Sartre believed that humans are automatically free. However, if others, as well as himself, do not consider one human, then that person is “un-free”. People seek freedom today, however, it is a different freedom”. The freedom people seek today is freedom from racial inequality, and freedom from those irrational minds.Question 3Why does Sartre consider Anti-Semitism to be a passion rather than mere opinion or an idea protected by the “right of free opinion”? What kind of passion is it? Does Sartre’s description of Anti-Semitic passions suggest any similarity to the racial antagonisms often found in the United States? Jean-Paul Sartre considers Anti-Semitism to be a passion because anyone who dislikes or hates another person simply based on general conceptions that convey a certain overall description of that person or race as evil and greedy has to be passionate about his or her views. Sartre states, that an “opinion cannot be argued” because it is a belief carried on by a person or group. One must accept the fact that ...
